Riiight. But, does it feature Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, India's top missile scientist, current President and a devout Muslim? Dr Homi Bhabha, the man behind India's nuclear programme who was a practising Parsi?
You know, there are other Indians out there who'd like to think we've developed our space programmes as technically-capable Indians, not Hindus, Muslims or any other shit. I, for one, can't see why the alleged Hindu contribution should be seperated from an all-Indian one.
I agree on both counts. Rakesh Sharma was India's first cosmonaut (much like Kalpana Chawla being the first Indian-born astronaut), and yes, while not to take points out of the Chinese, I have a lot of respect for Chinese scientists, it does seem to me that China is ripping Soviet technology off.
That said, I believe all this talk of The Next Great Space Race is all (western?) media speculation; really, I'd be hardpressed to see anyone at Sriharikota (that's India's launch base) itching to compete with the Chinese (or the Chinese competing with us Indians); my impression so far has been that ISRO is all Zen-like in its aspirations. There's an interesting piece on this in Raj Chengappa's Weapons of Peace for anyone interested in Indian science.
You imply that Google is a greater power than the Government. I can assure that it's... oh wait, gimme a sec, lemme google for that... omg, IT IS TRUE.
Add to that, customised news and the ever helpful Groups section. I've stopped counting how many times I was able to solve a technical problem by searching the Usenet section; someone out there would definitely have asked the same question and would've gotten some very good technical responses.
News, I usually use news.google to see what the world is thinking at the moment. And to see reports from multiple sources.
Frankly, while I doubt if MSN can duplicate Google for me, I think the point most are making is that you can't say the same thing about joe6pac@aol.com out there. Should be interesting to see how this turns out.
I don't know if this answers your question, but the US- India trade balance is still heavily tilted towards the US. That is, the US still exports more than it imports from India.
IT companies hate the strengthening Indian Rupee, but people like my dad, who earns in Indian Rupees, love it.:-)
Don't get me wrong, I usually dual-boot and like OSS/Software Libre as much as the next guy, but personally, I'm more comfortable with a politician who has no opinion, as opposed to someone with an ideologically-entrenched opinion. While it's quite possible that there's more to Lula's answer, a committment to OSS/Software Libre is great for the movement and for government's coffers in the short term, but does nothing to promote or help the industry.
Indeed, ideally speaking, innovation and tech policy should be ideology-free. You measure results only by how much innovation-driven value the industry has produced. If you don't get the results you expected in the given time-frame, be prepared to change your policy even to the point of completely reversing it.
Okay, that wasn't too coherent:-), just woke up, but anycase, innovation systems is a whole new public policy field these days. Pretty interesting stuff, especially if you have a tech and a sociological background.
I'm not sure I'm convinced this technology will prevent hijacking, but if you really want to put technology into seats, perhaps they could do something to monitor passengers' body temperatures. If a certain passenger's body temperature is above a certain value for some period, then the passenger could be asked to shift to a quarantine within the flight. Inflight SARS-infections are, I believe, rare, but should be a good idea to quarantine SARS-suspects at least.
Now, many people might not like such intrusive and constant monitoring, so the technology could be opt-in, that is, if you don't like the idea, you'll be given a non-monitored seat (which could be close to, or within, the quarantine zone)
Of course, I guess the bigger problem would be space within the flight; as others have pointed out already, even legspace is at a premium, so allocating inflight space for a quarantined zone might be challenging.
My observation has been that this less-leg-space problem occurs mostly in airlines where they have that attached flight-screens for every seat. I usually tend to avoid that kind of airlines (which, in a Europe-Asia context, would be Cathay, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, BA (?) etc) Personally, I see no reason to watch movies or play games off a teeny weeny screen when you can download them off Kazaa (or, if you want to play legit, watch them with full effects in a cinema)
Or may be it's just that the older airlines (Malaysia, Silk Air, Air India, Turkish etc) haven't "upgraded" their seats as yet.
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You know, there are other Indians out there who'd like to think we've developed our space programmes as technically-capable Indians, not Hindus, Muslims or any other shit. I, for one, can't see why the alleged Hindu contribution should be seperated from an all-Indian one.
Sorry man, I did misread your post then. ;-) That is a valid point, I do agree.
I'm Indian as well, but are you suggesting that ISRO has a corruption scandal raging in its midst? That's rich.
I agree on both counts. Rakesh Sharma was India's first cosmonaut (much like Kalpana Chawla being the first Indian-born astronaut), and yes, while not to take points out of the Chinese, I have a lot of respect for Chinese scientists, it does seem to me that China is ripping Soviet technology off.
Incidentally, it's ironical that you were talking about clean, cheap electric power, that is exactly what Rakesh Sharma apparently researched on, while aboard the Soyuz capsule.
That said, I believe all this talk of The Next Great Space Race is all (western?) media speculation; really, I'd be hardpressed to see anyone at Sriharikota (that's India's launch base) itching to compete with the Chinese (or the Chinese competing with us Indians); my impression so far has been that ISRO is all Zen-like in its aspirations. There's an interesting piece on this in Raj Chengappa's Weapons of Peace for anyone interested in Indian science.
Try chilli chicken. It's Indian Chinese, brought to you from the back alleys of Calcutta's Chinatown. :-)
You imply that Google is a greater power than the Government. I can assure that it's... oh wait, gimme a sec, lemme google for that... omg, IT IS TRUE.
Add to that, customised news and the ever helpful Groups section. I've stopped counting how many times I was able to solve a technical problem by searching the Usenet section; someone out there would definitely have asked the same question and would've gotten some very good technical responses.
News, I usually use news.google to see what the world is thinking at the moment. And to see reports from multiple sources.
Frankly, while I doubt if MSN can duplicate Google for me, I think the point most are making is that you can't say the same thing about joe6pac@aol.com out there. Should be interesting to see how this turns out.
Waddya know, the trolls have mastered the Art of Zen!
Doh, of course he is.
Bah, this replying-to-my-own-posts nonsense is happening for the second time in two days...
I usually hate posting fanboy comments, but must compliment you on your post. Insightful and definitely helpful for me.
Just curious, but you must be either in KTH or Uppsala? :-)
Fascinating point, wholly taken, but I won't call Amartya Sen as a 'philosopher'. His job spec is more development economics than anything else. :-)
Sorry, off my head. Just checked with an Indian friend; that is indeed a yearly average.
You still can't. That's the general Indian salary for a month, not a year. The article is being disingenous in not making this clear.
So sayeth Embedded Geek.
I don't know if this answers your question, but the US- India trade balance is still heavily tilted towards the US. That is, the US still exports more than it imports from India.
IT companies hate the strengthening Indian Rupee, but people like my dad, who earns in Indian Rupees, love it. :-)
Don't get me wrong, I usually dual-boot and like OSS/Software Libre as much as the next guy, but personally, I'm more comfortable with a politician who has no opinion, as opposed to someone with an ideologically-entrenched opinion. While it's quite possible that there's more to Lula's answer, a committment to OSS/Software Libre is great for the movement and for government's coffers in the short term, but does nothing to promote or help the industry.
Indeed, ideally speaking, innovation and tech policy should be ideology-free. You measure results only by how much innovation-driven value the industry has produced. If you don't get the results you expected in the given time-frame, be prepared to change your policy even to the point of completely reversing it.
Okay, that wasn't too coherent :-), just woke up, but anycase, innovation systems is a whole new public policy field these days. Pretty interesting stuff, especially if you have a tech and a sociological background.
I'm not sure I'm convinced this technology will prevent hijacking, but if you really want to put technology into seats, perhaps they could do something to monitor passengers' body temperatures. If a certain passenger's body temperature is above a certain value for some period, then the passenger could be asked to shift to a quarantine within the flight. Inflight SARS-infections are, I believe, rare, but should be a good idea to quarantine SARS-suspects at least.
Now, many people might not like such intrusive and constant monitoring, so the technology could be opt-in, that is, if you don't like the idea, you'll be given a non-monitored seat (which could be close to, or within, the quarantine zone)
Of course, I guess the bigger problem would be space within the flight; as others have pointed out already, even legspace is at a premium, so allocating inflight space for a quarantined zone might be challenging.
I don't know, just a thought.
Or it could be that you got lucky and there was a no-show on your flight! ;-)
My observation has been that this less-leg-space problem occurs mostly in airlines where they have that attached flight-screens for every seat. I usually tend to avoid that kind of airlines (which, in a Europe-Asia context, would be Cathay, Singapore Airlines, Swiss, BA (?) etc) Personally, I see no reason to watch movies or play games off a teeny weeny screen when you can download them off Kazaa (or, if you want to play legit, watch them with full effects in a cinema)
Or may be it's just that the older airlines (Malaysia, Silk Air, Air India, Turkish etc) haven't "upgraded" their seats as yet.
Actually, the next story on Slashdot was that Sun's (allegedly) trailbazing path is getting cold. :-D
Hong Kong, which is a city under the People's Republic of China although with a slightly different visa regime, has its own TLD.
Think of it as Google-bestowed karma on your website. :-D
Not just that. Imagine a BEOWULF CLUSTER of.... err, never mind.